'''Alliance Defending Freedom''' (ADF), formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, is an organization that defends [[religious freedom]] in litigation and, less than under its prior leadership, the sanctity of life, marriage and the family. While consistently [[conservative]] in the past, and while still considered by some to be conservative, it has been under [[Never Trump movement|Never-Trump]] leadership since January 2017, with conservative [[pro-life]]r Alan Sears being replaced by older Trump-critic Michael Farris, a supporter of a [[Koch brothers]]-backed [[Con Con]].
In its amicus brief in the high-profile case of ''Trump v. Hawaii'' concerning President Trump's executive order limiting travel to the [[United States]] from hostile nations, the ADF, while taking the time to submit the brief, pointedly refused to support the [[Trump Administration]] on the cover of its brief, and unusually stated further in the text: "''ADF takes no position on Proclamation No. 9645 as a matter of immigration or national security policy. It also takes no position on Respondents’ challenge under the Immigration and Nationality Act or any constitutional basis except the Establishment Clause.''" Additionally, it did not submit a brief to a case in ''Azar v. Garza'', where the Trump Administration was trying tried to prevent an illegal alien from aborting her child. On the other hand, the ADF continued to successfully defend conservative Christians, including in ''National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra'' and when it defended Christian creationist Andrew Snelling in May 2017.
== Background ==